Where we sported and played: €495k Beaumont Cork semi has famous Bowles and Meyler family sports links
From soccer to swimming, hurling to football and childhood garden goalposts, La Reine has seen all the glory days
Pitch-sized back garden (well, sort of) at La Reine 37 Lower Beaumont Drive, for sale for €495,000 via agents Jeremy Murphy Associates
Sat, 03 Jul, 2021 - 07:07
Tommy Barker, Property Editor reports on a suburban home fit for any fit family
Lower Beaumont Drive, Ballintemple, Cork
€495,000
Bedrooms: 4
BER: D1
CALLING all sporting families: this suburban Cork home, with its 160’ long back garden, is calling out to those with energy to burn: fit for any family, it has Bowles clan links to a range of competitive sports, from swimming at an international level, to GAA greatness, and Irish soccer stardom too with the married-in Meyler surname familiar to many.
Nostalgia: A look back at Cork s famous Lee Baths
Swimming at the Lee Baths July 1935.
Amy Nolan
With mounting calls for a lido to be built in Cork, this week we have taken a look back at the last open air swimming pool to operate in Cork city, the Lee Baths.
The summer of 1934 saw the opening of Cork’s new municipal and open air unheated swimming pool on the site now occupied by The Kingsley Hotel on the Carrigrohane Road.
In May 1934 the Cork Examiner gave a preview of what the city could expect from the new facility.
Work in progress at Lee Swimming Baths, Carrigrohane Road, 1933.